State v. Woodward
Decision Date | 22 June 1922 |
Docket Number | 6 Div. 387. |
Citation | 208 Ala. 31,93 So. 826 |
Parties | STATE v. WOODWARD. |
Court | Alabama Supreme Court |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; A. E. Gamble, Judge.
Proceeding to assess property of H. G. Woodward for taxation. From verdict and judgment, the State appeals. Affirmed.
Weatherly & Birch, of Birmingham, for the State.
Stokely Scrivner & Dominick, of Birmingham, for appellee.
Under our older statutes, in proceedings before the commissioners' court for the correction of errors in the assessment of property for taxation, and on appeals therefrom to the circuit court, the issue was as to the "fair market or real value thereof," and on that basis the valuation was fixed. Code 1907, § 2148.
In State v. Bienville Water Supply Co., 89 Ala. 325, 8 So. 54, the language quoted was held to mean the property's "cash, market value-the price it would sell for at cash sale, but not at forced sale."
Section 1 of the act, subd. i., declares:
"The term 'value' means the fair and reasonable cash value of the taxable property, and shall be estimated at the price which the property would bring at a fair voluntary sale."
In popular parlance the word "cash" ordinarily means not merely money, but money in hand. The New Standard Dictionary defined it as:
And the same authority defines "cash sale" as:
"A sale for ready money, goods or stocks, for immediate delivery and payment, as distinguished from a sale on credit or for future delivery." In its ordinary use, as applied to business transactions, "cash" is the antonym of "credit," and so the courts have generally understood and defined it.
1 Words and Phrases, 152, citing numerous cases, among them, Birmingham Fire Ins. Co. v. Pulver, 126 Ill. 329, 18 N.E. 804, 9 Am. St. Rep. 598, 603. The distinction between a sale for cash and a sale on credit has often been recognized by this court. Mahone v. Williams, 39 Ala. 202; Mewburn's Heirs v. Bass, 82 Ala. 622, 2 So. 520; Farmers' Savings Bank v. Murphree, 200 Ala. 574, 76 So. 932.
We can find no good reason for imputing to the words "cash value," as used in the present statutes, a meaning which is opposed to the common as well as the judicial understanding of them. That they import value in money presently paid we cannot doubt; and it may be observed that if such was the legislative intention in the ascertainment of "the fair market or real value" of property for tax assessment, as declared in State v. Bienville, etc., Co. supra, that intention is surely not changed by substitution of the words "fair and reasonable cash value,"...
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